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By Nick Crispino
The House and Senate appropriations committees earlier this week passed parallel spending bills that would boost NIH budgets while eliminating the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality, a $465 million agency that plays a central role in the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.
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